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Представьте, что ваш мозг функционирует на такой высокой мощности, о какой вы даже мечтать не могли, высасывая базисные ресурсы вашего интеллекта и энергии. Мозг Эдди Спинолы способен на это, потому что он открыл для себя крошечную белую таблеточку под названием МДТ-48. Это Виагра для мозга, творческий наркотик, меняющий всю его жизнь. Но теперь, когда Эдди легко делает такие суммы денег, о которы...
Представляя одну из лучших работ своего учителя и кумира Джона Фарриса — роман «Когда звонит Майкл», Стивен Кинг говорит в предисловии, что эта книга — «прежде всего удивительно захватывающий сюжет, который от страницы к странице все больше накаляет ваши нервы и вдруг подводит вас к совершенно неожиданной развязке». Напряженная нить расследования вьется вокруг цепи загадочных смертей, каждую из ко...
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife Greta, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled; would he mind slippi...
Продюсер третьесортного утреннего шоу Бекки Фулер сумела пригласить в свою программу легендарного ведущего Майка Помероя. Правда, Майк отказывается говорить о моде и погоде и сплетничать о знаменитостях, Это делает его соведущая Колин Пек, бывшая королева красоты и героиня утренних программ, которая выводит Майка из себя. Пока темпераментный Майк враждует со своей партнершей, у Бекки начинается ро...
Тема обоих романов Адэра — любовь и смерть, но если в первом — история гибельной страсти стареющего писателя к молодому голливудскому актеру, то во втором — первая любовь и взросление юного американца на фоне майских событий 1968г. во Франции. Адэру удается с тончайшим психологизмом и кинематографической зримостью рассказать о темных глубинах человеческого сердца.
В предлагаемой читателю книге блестящей французской писательницы, классика XX века Сидони-Габриель Колетт (1873–1954) включены романы и повести, впервые изданные во Франции с 1930 по 1945 годы, знаменитые эссе о дозволенном и недозволенном в любви «Чистое и порочное», а также очерк ее жизни и творчества в последние 25 лет жизни. На русском языке большинство произведений публикуется впервые.
В книгу вошел остросюжетный приключенческий роман Генри де Вер Стэкпула "Голубая лагуна", по которому снят одноименный фильм. Издание 1923 года.
Энджел Деверелл, юная барышня из провинциального английского городка, мечтает быть великой писательницей. Как ни странно, находится издатель, который берется опубликовать ее первый роман. Энджел становится безумно популярной. Стремительно богатеет. Окружает себя роскошью. Представляет себя ангелом, живущим в собственном раю. А затем и влюбляется - в красавца, аристократа, талантливого художника. К...
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco."Palo Alto" is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers a...
ALA Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Book Award. DREAM BOY confirms the immense promise of Jim Grimsley's award-winning debut, WINTER BIRDS. In his electrifying novel, adolescent gay love, violence, and the spirituality of old-time religion are combined through the alchemy of Grimsley's vision into a powerfully suspenseful story of escape and redemption. "I've never read a novel remotely li...
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you...
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect again...
This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance 2013, starring Shailene Woodley (star of The Fault in our Stars and Divergent) and Miles Teller (star of Whiplash). SUTTER KEELY. HE'S the guy you want at your party. He'll get everyone dancing. He' ll get everyone in your parents' pool. Okay, so he's not exa...
Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active...
Старомодная комедия про то, как английская аристократия увлеклась спиритизмом. Сюжет разворачивается в богатом доме преуспевающего драматурга Чарльза Кэндэмена, который не верит ни в чудеса, ни в пресловутых духов. Кэндэмен намерен как следует посмеяться над невежеством многочисленных лордов-спиритов, для чего он приглашает на дружескую вечеринку профессионального «вызывателя» духов — экстравагант...
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is P...
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his part...
A secret love which has a whole town talking... and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down. Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't like th...
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, ace...
Part thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzak’s stunning debut tells of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age that begins with a shocking murder and ends with a reason to hope. Adam McCormick had just turned fifteen when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning...
In late 1963, Mary 'Mouse' Bradford is sent to boarding school by her unsympathetic father and jealous stepmother. There, she meets the rebellious Paulie, and together they embark upon a quest to discover what, fundamentally, separates men from women.
"I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was a lucky break when he was attracted by my youthfulness." So begins the wrenching diary of Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old girl longing for love and acceptance and struggling with her own precocious sexuality. Minnie hates school and she wants to be an artist, or maybe a speleologist, or a...
"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out." For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by th...
